anxious - Story 7660 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," breathed Olivia, her voice tight. She was supposed to send a risqué joke to a group of friends. Instead, it was delivered to her church group.

She felt a strange mix of terror and disbelief. Her head was swimming. The text, laced with innuendo, was now out in the world, a digital landmine. She knew the group's reaction. It was so bad.

She gripped her chair, her knuckles turning white. She imagined the awkward phone calls, the disapproving glances, the sermons filled with veiled criticisms. It was a disaster.

She sat motionless for a moment, waiting for the sky to fall.

Emotion: anxious

Cluster: Fear / Anxiety

PC1 (Valence): -1.99 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): -0.24

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion anxious. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 anxious stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the anxious emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the anxious vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`😣`	0.315
`😖`	0.302
`worse`	0.297
`😰`	0.285
`own`	0.267

Suppressed:

`la`	-0.441
`a`	-0.382
`de`	-0.365
`"`	-0.256
`happy`	-0.256